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counter-sectarian

counter-sectarian adjective: anti-sectarian.

Adjective

counter-sectarian (comparative more counter-sectarian, superlative most counter-sectarian)

  1. (rare) anti-sectarian
    • The exercises on that occasion, however, I was happy to be informed, were well calculated to strengthen the claims of that respectable institution on public patronage—claims which, from its separation from counter-sectarian influence, ought to be peculiarly owned by the members of our Communion.1833 October 4, Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York, New York: Protestant Episcopal Press...
    • The ministry assembled lists of sectarian publications, subsidized the dissemination of counter-sectarian texts and closely monitored religious groups and associations of all kinds.2007 September 6, Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 653

Forms of counter-sectarian

comparativemore counter-sectarian
superlativemost counter-sectarian
alternative form (rare)countersectarian

Origin of counter-sectarian

From counter- + sectarian.

Questions about counter-sectarian

What does counter-sectarian mean?
Counter-sectarian means anti-sectarian.
What part of speech is counter-sectarian?
Counter-sectarian is an adjective.

Words near counter-sectarian in the dictionary

  1. counter-roll
  2. counter-rolls
  3. counter-rotation
  4. counter-rotations
  5. counter-salient
  6. counter-sectarian
  7. counter-shed
  8. counter-sheds
  9. counter-space
  10. counter-stereotypical
  11. counter-stereotypically

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